[Palace of Tiglath-pileser (III), great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of Bab]ylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters (of the world); [valiant man who, with the help of (the god) Aššur, his lord], smashed [like pots all who were unsubmissive to him], swept over (them) like the Deluge, (and) considered (them) as (mere) ghosts; [the king who marched about at the command of the gods Aššur, Šamaš, and Marduk, the great gods, and] exercised authority over lands [from the Bitter] Sea of Bīt-Yakīn, as far as Mount Bikni in the east, [up to the Sea of the Setting Sun, as far as Egypt, from the horizon to the zen]ith, and exercised kingship over them.

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[From the beginning of my reign until my seventeenth palû, I captured the (tribes) Ituʾu, Rubuʾu, Ḫam]arānu, Luḫuʾatu, Ḫaṭallu, Rubbû, [Rapiqu, Nabātu, Gurumu, Dunanu, Ubulu, Ruʾuʾa], Liʾtaʾu, Marusu, (and those living in) the cities Dūr-Kurigalzu, [Adinni, the fortresses of Sarragitu (and) Labbanat, all of the Arameans] on the banks of the Tigris, [Euphrates, Surappu, (and) Uqnû Rivers, as far as the Lower Sea of the Rising Sun. I annexed (those areas) to] Assyria (and) [placed a eunuch of mine as provincial governor over them].

[In Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, Borsippa], Cuth[a, Kish, Dilbat, (and) Uruk],

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